Sandeep Zachariah
CEO, Zackriya Solutions
CEO at Zackriya Solutions. Building Meetily, a privacy-first, open-source meeting assistant.
Articles by Sandeep Zachariah (7)
- Privacy & Security
AI Meeting Notes for Schools: Why the Safest Student Data Agreement Has Almost Nothing to Cover
A FERPA-friendly AI note taker for schools. Meetily transcribes on the staff computer, with no bot, so student data never reaches us. California DPA signed.
- Privacy & Security
Your Meeting Tool's Risk Level Under the EU AI Act Isn't Set by the Vendor. It's Set by You.
The EU AI Act's four risk categories cover uses, not products. The same meeting tool can be low-risk, high-risk or banned. Plus the 2027 timeline and EN 18286.
- Build in Public
Why We Built Meetily When Every Meeting Tool Already Existed
A client told us they weren't comfortable with a bot in the meeting. We looked for a tool that kept the audio on our own machines, found none, and built one.
- Build in Public
The Decision Maker's Second Brain
How a consultant managing 25 client projects built a private second brain in Obsidian using Meetily transcripts, local AI, and his own automation.
- Build in Public
Why We Chose Experience Over Features And How Hard That Was
Speaker diarization was our most requested feature, and we said, "Not yet." Here's what we built instead, why the discipline was harder than the engineering, and what we finally shipped in July 2026.
- Privacy & Security
Why "Privacy Policy" Is Not the Same as "Privacy Architecture"
Every tool that has ever leaked user data had a privacy policy. A policy is a document, not a guarantee. Why we built Meetily so we cannot access your meetings.
- Privacy & Security
Why Your Meeting Data Belongs on Your Device, Not Someone Else's Server
Your meetings contain strategy sessions, sales pipelines, and HR discussions. Cloud transcription tools process them on third-party servers. Local-first AI keeps everything on your machine. Here's why data sovereignty matters for meeting recordings.